Introduction

The reason merlin isn't called merdin is to avoid confusion with a twelfth century word for feces. It was thought that murdrin would be really easily confused with murd which is the same as it is to day. O, do you know that in the seventeenth century the word murd was english? Yes, really. And then it just kind of disappeared in the eighteenth century. Now its kind of, everyone knows it as just a french word. E donded i don wahallo, and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish,. A weekly podcast coming to you from the c offices in covent garden.